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| Happy New Year, Writing.Com'ers! We wish you a creative and successful 2014! To kick things off, here's some new emoticons!  = {e:hockey} = {e:hockeyhelmet} = {e:hockeypuck} = {e:hockeyskate} = {e:olympics} = {e:medalbronze} = {e:medalsilver} = {e:medalgold} = {e:goggles} = {e:skiboots} = {e:skier} = {e:skier2} = {e:snowboarder}  = {e:snowboard}  = {e:snowboard2}  = {e:snowboard3}  The hockey emoticons are "brought to you by" "Invalid Item"  . Answering my challenge, they raised 600,000 Gift Points for "RAOK Upgrade Brigade Group" to get a hockey emoticon for the WDC community... They were expecting just 1, but The StoryMistress  surprised us all with 4! And, finally, a longtime special request from Elisa the Bunny Stik  ... = {e:facepalm}Write on in 2014, ~~SM (& SMs) |
The following winners for the November 2013 running of "What a Character! : Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 17 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "What a Character! : Official WDC Contest" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor  Second Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Third Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Thanks to the judges and everyone who entered. There were a lot of great characters created this round! ~Diane The contest for December is "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" |
Congratulations to the following three winners of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" ! First ($100): Review of "Life Observed"  by 🌑 Darleen - QoD  Second ($50): Review of "The Last Time I Saw Him" by Solivagus  Third ($25): Review of "Verity" by ♥Hooves♥  To select the winners, we randomly choose 10 of the entries to the contest and then SMs, SM and I individually rank those 10 reviews according to "Guidelines To Great Reviewing" . I combine our rankings and from that we get our top 3 winners. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and entered this month. Diane |
The following winners for the October 2013 running of "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" were chosen from the 33 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Second Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Third Place - "Snipe Hunting (Third Place)" by Pepper  Thanks to the judges for their time spent reading and determining the winners. ~Diane  Check out the November contest: "What a Character! : Official WDC Contest" ! |
Congratulations to the following three winners of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" ! First ($100): Invalid Review by Anonymous Second ($50): Review of "Untitled 3" by Tiggy  Third ($25): Invalid Review by AnonymousTo select the winners, we randomly choose 10 of the entries to the contest and then SMs, SM and I individually rank those 10 reviews according to "Guidelines To Great Reviewing" . I combine our rankings and from that we get our top 3 winners. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and entered this month. ~Diane |
A special thanks to Jeff  for our most recent addition to Writing.Com 101 : "Community Activities" . You can now find this entry from the Table of Contents in "Writing.Com 101" under "The Community" listed as #3. |
The following winners for the September 2013 running of "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" were chosen from the 11 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Twelfth Knight, or What the Hell?" by Indelible Ink Second Place - "Suffer Not A Witch" by ßlueyeʐ 💮  Third Place - "Collector" by Professor Q Thanks also to the judges for the time spent reading and deciding on the winners.  October's Contest is: "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" |
Congratulations to the following three winners of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" ! First ($100): Review of "Cutting the Cord" by Rhonda Second ($50): Review of "Jealousy" by Dave  Third ($25): Review of "Secret of Your Fingertips" by Past Member 'felicityluna'To select the winners, we randomly choose 10 of the entries to the contest and then SMs, SM and I individually rank those 10 reviews according to "Guidelines To Great Reviewing" . I combine our rankings and from that we get our top 3 winners. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and entered this month. Diane |
 November is National Novel Writing Month! "NaNoWriMo" What is NanoWrimo? National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Read more: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano Prepare for NaNoWriMo Many of our Writing.Com members are gearing up and prepping for this annual event. To make things easier for all of you, we've assembled a variety of items to help you along your novel-writing journey! 1) Are you Prepping? Grown to more than 200 participants since 2008. Come see what all the fuss is about.
2) 5th Annual NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon A fundraising competition to write NaNo novels and earn GPs for great Writing.Com groups at the same time!
3) 30 Days of Character Building! Gearing up for NaNo? Confused on how to build your character? Sign-up for this contest and watch your character form before your eyes!
4) NO NOVEL NANO! Join the fun! Goal 50K in November but NO NOVEL. Write what you want and count your words. Prepare now. Build up momentum. Aim high and have fun.
5) Writing.Com Lounge From Nano-Newbies to Nano-Oldies, introduce yourself, exchange ideas, ask questions, etc. Groups and individuals are welcome to post links to their nano groups and nano activities.
Activate your NanoCounter by clicking the following URL: http://www.writing.com/main/my_account/action/update_nano/nanocnt/1 Your NanoCounter helps you keep track of how many words you've written for this year's NanoNovel. Remember your goal is to write 50,000 Words between November 1st and November 30th. When you update your NanoCounter, your count stats will be updated on the Nano'er List located at: http://www.writing.com/main/authors/action/nano |
 Authors will now receive notifications in the left column's  when they receive a new rating on any of their items. Ratings are no longer anonymous by default! The notification will include the giver's user tag just like the other notifications. (Past ratings-only remain anonymous and are not affected by this change.) Members with a paid membership do still have the option of checking the "Make Anonymous" box to leave an anonymous rating. In this case, the notification will show "Anonymous" rather than the giver's information. The first time you "rate-only" something, you'll receive a pop-up warning reminding you about the change. This is a one-time only warning and is only for members with accounts created prior to today. (Newer members will not receive this notice.) Nothing about reviewing has changed. This update effects the action of leaving a rating without a review only. Review emails will continue to come for reviews and no new notifications have been added for the ratings that come with a review; the email continues to be the singular notifier for those.This has been well test, but if anything seems out of place, please drop a line in "Bug Reporting" .Write on, ~~SM |
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